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‘Historic’: NAACP urges Biden to end arms transfers to Israel amid Gaza war

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A Palestinian woman carries a child at the site of an Israeli attack on a UN school sheltering displaced people in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6 [Abed Khaled/Reuters]

The NAACP, one of the largest Black civil rights organisations in the United States, has urged Joe Biden to “indefinitely” suspend weapon transfers to Israel in a sign of growing discontent with the US president’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza.

In a statement on Thursday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said the group has a “responsibility to speak out in the face of injustice and work to hold our elected officials accountable for the promises they’ve made”.

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